August 9, 2025 • 30 mins
This week, Amy and T.J. set out on the road for a working vacation with the kids and found a number of new and fun ways to recover… because, let’s face it, sometimes even vacation is stressful.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey there, folks, it is Saturday, August ninth. Question for you,
what did you do this week to give yourself a beats,
give yourself a break, give yourself just a little grace
this week, and maybe do a little something to recover. Well,
you know what we did this week to recover. We
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took a four hour drive, had a romantic hike through
a state park, went to a carnival, grilled steaks, kebabs
and broughts every night, introduced a new generation to the
Final Destination Movie franchise, and we watched one particular episode
of Seinfeld. And with that, everybody, welcome to this recovery
run edition of Amy and TJ. Rose. We are getting
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better at this. We were doing bad for a little
while and recovering, but now we've gotten better in the
past few weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, we're even recovering while we're working right now. Because
we are sitting on a beautiful deck at the tip
of Long Island with a beautiful breeze. You might be
able to hear it on the microphone a little bit,
apologies if you can. With a gorgeous seventy three degree
sun beating down on us, not a cloud in the sky,
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so Yes, even though we're working, we're still kind of relaxing.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, not everybody gets to do that. We don't get
to do that often, but we're getting to do it
this week, and that has been a part of us
probably being a little more up, being a little more joyful.
Maybe you've heard it in our tone this week during
some of our episodes, But the recovery run, we always
remind folks this is a real thing, an actual thing
for us runners and marathoners. But yeah, you do all
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that training and all that running, and sometimes you go
run to recover from running robot.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, it's kind of like active recovery. I think anyone
who works out knows what that is. So a recovery
run is a short, easy paced run intended to help
your body recover from the harder workouts aka the rest
of your week. It's a form of active recovery that
promote it's blood flowed to tired muscles, aiding in the
removal of metabolic waste and reducing muscle soreness. You know,
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I would say this recovery run that we're doing now
each week, that we're talking about intentional moments of rest
and relaxation in an otherwise hectic work week. That's it's
almost like a mental recovery, so like your brain actually
gets to relax, like the muscles in your brain. It's
very much like the muscles in your legs or all
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the other muscles you're using in a run, all the
muscles you use when you're stressed and anxious and overthinking,
they need to relax too.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And it's weird that one of are the ways that
we found to relax this week came from probably one
of the most frustrating parts of our week, and I'm
talking about Robes. We went and we watched a particular
episode of Seinfeld. It's called Alternate Side. I think it
was season three, episode eleven, if I can remember that correct.
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But it's the episode Robes that is so famous, has
such a place in pop culture because of a particular
scene in which Jerry was trying to rent a car.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Correct, And we actually had life imitate art this week,
so if you all need a little refresher on the scene.
Jerry goes up to get his car from the rental
company and he says, here's my reservation, and they said, oh, yeah,
we see your reservation. But unfortunately, mister Seinfeld we have
no cars, and he was like, then you actually didn't
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take the reservation, Like, oh, no, we did take the reservation,
and he's like, no. The whole point of a reservation
is to hold a car. And if so you can
take a reservation, you're good at taking reservations. You're not
good at actually following up or following through on the reservation,
which is the whole point and the most important part
of the reservation, which is to have the car available.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
See we're laughing about it now, but it was the
most frustrating part of our week that caused us to
actually watch that episode because we have had a reservation.
We got of we're carless, which a lot of people
are in New York, but yours was the last we
were holding on to. Yep, your coop turned it in
a few months ago. So all we have was a motorcycle.
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Can't go very far with our luggage on that thing.
So we don't have a car, so had we rent
when we travel. So we come to Montalk, rented a car.
You rented that car? Is it literally months ago?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Two months ago?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Two months ago, made a reservation. We show up to
pick up the car over the weekend and they tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
What, we have no vehicles. And not only did I
rent any vehicle this because we knew we had a
bunch of kids coming. We actually specifically asked for an
suv and it was more expensive, the seven passenger suv
pre paid it. Get up there and they say, we
have no vehicles, and I follow up and ask when
will you be getting vehicles? The answer, I don't know,
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and I can't even guarantee you there'll be any for
the rest of the day. And so we're there with
all of our luggage that we slept over on the
other side of the west side of Highway to get
into our car, and we're being told there are no cars.
So then we go and I get on the phone
with another car company and they assure me, if I
go to this other location in Manhattan, we will absolutely
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be able to get a car. So I rented, I
reserved another SUV and okay, got on the phone with
customer service. Yes, ma'am, that car is at that location. Fantastic.
We get into another Uber. We go to the other
car company and what happens. TJ's no cars, we have
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no cars available.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
There's one available, and the family ahead of you is
taking that. It's like, wow, okay, it's awesome. Say, oh,
here's a beautiful electric vehicle if you want to take this. Yes,
it holds about three and a half people and two bags,
and good luck finding whatever place to plug it into.
Those are our options. We ended up getting a third
option with a car with a leaky tire. The air
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is leaking, he assured me. Odds brought probably.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Fine, just a sensor issue. Yeah, we checked it. We
did the tire gauge, the tire pressure gauge. The tires
are fine. So don't be alarmed because when you look
when you go to turn the key, you're going to
see that the tire pressure's dropping. But don't worry. We
confirmed it's not dropping. Okay, just a malfunctioning sensor.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So ocd ME is keeping an eye on this sense
of the whole time pressure's dropping. We have to keep
putting air in a tire. We have put air in
this rental car tire all week because they let us
leave with a leaking.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Tire, and we left with the leaking tire knowing that
it could be because it was our only option. It
seemed as though in all of Manhattan and we were
already an hour behind schedule, which added even a longer
drive time because traffic going out to Long Island is
so amazing on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I have to ask the line the kid gave you,
it hurts. I wasn't there with you and analyse, but
it was a very much a similar line to the show.
And he was talking about so, yeah, we only take reservations,
we don't rent car.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well he said, he said, we only hold reservations, not vehicles.
And when he said that to me, I did not laugh.
I said, did you just hear what you just said?
He's like yes, and I'll repeat it. And then when
you went up and talked to him, he had some
attitude with you because I had already questioned him, like,
did you actually just say that to me with a
straight face?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Okay, So we're not trying to no, this is an
actual experience, and we're not bad mouthing or trying to
bad mouth these companies. But if anybody in any executive
level of either of those two companies knew that their
employees behave that way that day, there would be hell
to pay. There is zero chance you ever want your
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company to have anybody have the experience that we had
with your company.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's so true. It's so true, so that you know,
of course, travel vacations. You know, this is why we've
even laughed when you see other families stressed out, because
there it never goes perfectly. Wheels always fall off the
bus in some way, form or fashion, and ours just
happened right away.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What was the company, you know, not the company? The
family was from? Where was funny?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
There was a family from Germany. And I felt so
bad for her because she had booked She said, she
had booked this car six months in advance. She asked
this sales associate about fifteen questions ahead of times. Okay, fine, whatever.
The guy at the counter, who was rude as hell,
she asked him at least fifteen questions about tolls and
what it was going to be like, and they were
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taking it to Canada, and what kind of insurance she
should have. You could tell she was so detailed. She
was German, so she had all her ducks in a row.
She was literally going through and she looked back at
me and said, I'm sorry, I just I need to
make sure I have everything straight. I said, it's fine,
it's fine, no worries. Because she knew she was like
holding up the line. And then and only then he said, oh,
your reservations for twelve. It was eleven forty five, and
he said you'll just have to wait and didn't tell
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her that there weren't any cars then, and her poor
husband and her son there couldn't speak a lick of English,
so she was the only one communicating. Then the guy
next who came in line, he said, oh, your reservation
was for eleven. Sorry, your car's not here, So he
was making excuses. Then when he came up to me,
he had he ran out of them, so we had
to just say to me, point blank, we have no cars.
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And I was like, what the two people before you
basically kind of blamed them, Oh you're here early, Oh
you're here late. And then he had no other excuse
to me other than to say we only hold reservations,
not vehicles.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
This was egregious. And again this was I understand. Somebody
tell you go to a restaurant and say, oh my goodness,
these people stay late and your reservation is going to
be delayed. I feel we're not talking about mine. Earth
stuff happens, flight delays, all kinds of you. You're freaking
flight intendant has a bad attitude because something's going stuff
happens in business. This was other level and your company
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should not function. No, hey, I don't want to call
him out, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And the rude person at the counter said to us,
this happens every weekend, kind of basically like it's not
a big deal. This is this is how we operate.
This one was great, get used to it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But the company, I know, people get you to know.
We'll get We're not black. No, this is an actual
experience us. This isn't in any way libelous. No, this
was my experience the company. It starts with an H
and ends with earths. Okay with the company, Well, I
don't know how we can ever work with the It
was unbelievad.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I gave customer service a piece of my mind when
I had to call and get my money back, and
I told them that I would never rent with them again.
I was a gold member that was ending. I just it.
I will never ever that was rent from that company ever.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But you know what they gave us. Think it was
a reason to watch a wonderful Seinfeld episode and we laugh.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Isn't it funny? Like whatever. That was probably in the
early nineties, so twenty something years ago, thirty something years ago,
and still still that's what rental companies are doing thirty
years later.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
We got in the car so we could head out
and have a wonderful time and again, yes, spend some
good family time. But in part of that starts with
ay frustrating. Yes, man, we've been frustrated before. We've found joy.
Yeah this week, but yeah, it's a even without traffic,
it's a two and a half hour drive. Put traffic
in there. It's two lane road getting out to where
we are, and it became.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
A doozy like a four hour drive basically, but it
was uneventful and at least our tire didn't go flat.
There were other things to have perspective over. After we
had that experience, it was just like, let's just get
there and be grateful that we're finally somewhere other than Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
We get to where we're a look, this is a
blessing and you and I have I guess we probably
do this once or twice a year. We make our
way up to upstate New York, somewhere along island to
just send a weekend on the lake and just get
some sun to get out of the city. It's always good.
A lot of people from the city do that. But
this has been a week long venture and it's been
cool to have family but also friends in and out
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because your daughters have had like a revolving door of
friends coming in. Yes, that's been really cool actually this week.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yes. And the cool thing is they actually, I think
are probably appreciative of the fact that we have to
go to bed around nine pm each night because we
have to get up so early to do morning run.
So they've kind of had the house to themselves to
enjoy watch movies, kind of feel like, you know, they're
renting their own mon talk home, you know, the twenty
somethings that they are, hahaha. But yes, it's been fun
because we've had to have We've had some fun time
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with them, but they've also gotten some alone time i think,
without us, which I'm sure they're appreciative of.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
But a big part of what we do, and look,
this is what parents do. We want to feed kids
as my parents do. I know what your parents do
when we go home. But it's weird to be in
that position now, to have people of that age expecting
food from you, and you always oblige you.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yes, and we have every every time, like you've been
the girl master as you usually are, and the chef
as well. But every time you put down a plate
of anything, it's hilarious. It's like a feeding friends. You know,
when you go to feed your fish in the fish
tank and you put the fish food and they all
just come up and got That's exactly what happens with
these kids, you know, now that they've got off to
college or you know, actually Ava and Ry are about
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to go off on their own, they're so aware of
how expensive food is and how difficult and time consuming
it is to prepare it that they're extra quick to
just be like whoo food free food. So yes, it's
been fun to watch them be appreciative.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It's a compliment when people eat your food. Of course,
my issue I always take with the girls, Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Just give me a heads up that you want food
that you're starving.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I ask them ahead of time, is anybody else eating
this is what I'm making. I don't get a response,
and then I make enough for two and then I
end up not eating that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It happens multiple times my food, but.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
No it's a joy and it's fun, and this has
been good and we just I don't know. The friends
that your daughters have at this point are family. They've
been around so long and even for me at this
point have known them throughout their lives. It's really really
cool to be able to hang with them like this.
And there, I always say to the man hopes to
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being at some point has friends like Annals in particular,
has because they just good kids. Like all of them
that show up here, bring a bottle of something or
bring some kind of gift to say thank you. Yes,
they're grateful.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's a good they were raised well. And the other
the other perk of having I've always let the girls usually,
if we have the space to do it, you can
bring one friend. And part of it is selfish on
my end, because I know when they each bring one friend,
it changes the dynamic a lot of times. If you
all have siblings and multiple kids, you know that the
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fighting sometimes it goes on. I feel like it doesn't
even matter how old they are. They go and fall
back into their same dynamics. When they have friends with them,
they're on their best behavior. They're not fighting with each other,
and that to me was always like my secret sauce
in a nice congenial vacation where there isn't arguing or yelling.
When they have friends, every buddy seems to be happier
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and more peaceful. It changes the dynamic.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's strategic, but I do I love the kids and
I love having the kids around, and it's analyse is
the only other one here driving? You haven't been doing
a lot of driving, and this is entirely too much parenting.
But every time she walked out the door and then
walked in the door, the first thing I say to her.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What's the tire pressure pressure? We're concerned. I mean, there's
not a lot of real estate. You don't have to
go too many miles to get anywhere here. It's usually
between a five and a ten minute drive. But still, yes,
the tire pressure continues to haunt us.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This is this rental car is driving me. The problem
was caused by one company, but we actually are renting
from another company that starts with an A and ends
with a VIS.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
So they have, by the way, because I called them
and gave them a mirorful and so at least they
have given us a discount in two days off. So
we got something, but what.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Was it we wanted to what was the limit on
how much to want to replace the tire?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
They would only give two hundred dollars to replace its
h and it was going to cost three hundred and
thirty dollars to do it here.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So yeah, we're in my talk.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
The place ain't cheap, right exactly, So I'm not eating
one hundred and thirty dollars to give them a brand
new tire. So yes, we're just gonna keep filling it
back up every day, and.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
We pray we get back to Manhattan all right when
we have to drive. But folks, yeah, all that stuff
was fun and fine and dandy. But a couple of
the highlights of the week unexpectedly. First, if anybody has
listened to us for any period of time, you know
Robot loves hiking. You know that I'm black. We ended
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up on a hike this week and I rather enjoyed it.
Can't wait to tell you about that. And also, we
introduce a new generation to maybe one of the greatest
horror movie franchises of all time.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
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your recovery run on this Saturday. We come to you
from a beautiful, breezy, sunny mom talk along Island. We
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are in active recovery mode while we're working, so I
mean you can do both. Sometimes you can relax and
work at the same time, So we're attempting to do
that while we record this recovery run. But yes, tech
sometimes if you're in the right setting, with the right person,
with the perfect temperature and the perfect distance, hiking can
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be fun for everyone.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Hiking can be fun for everyone. Hiking. I know you
love hiking. Will you define hiking for me again?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Is it just walking through trees and shit?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's walking through beautiful topography that makes you feel connected
to mother Earth and nature and to one another. Because
you usually end up talking, you're in the moment, you're present, but.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You're walking, essentially walking through the woods.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You're walking through the woods you can walk through. But
also you could be walking through the desert. That's gonna
be hiking as well.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But generally speaking in this country when we're talking about hiking,
it's usually in the world I'm talking about. But it
does it need to be at elevation?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
No? I usually like that, but sometimes no, you could
just it could be fairly flat. You could be hiking
on a shoreline, you know, on a cliff. You could
be walking. It doesn't have to always be uphill, Okay,
And you.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And I talk about this all the time. I'm just
it's something I've never I'm from Arkansas. I've lived in
places where that's very popular. Hell, even the Bay Area, Yeah,
Little Rock, Arkansas, the place, even Atlanta, the.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Place is well, oh yeah, North Georgia mountains where the.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Hiking is a thing. I'm just not a hiker. I
know black people hike, but I always joke with you
about things.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Like that, and I say it, and I say, white people, shit, Yeah,
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Out in the woods just just to walk and what Okay,
it's just not my thing. It's okay, but I respect
that you do it to the point that I also
want to be able to compromise, and I want to
this is something she loves to do. I don't want
you to be denied something you want to do, and
it needs to be separate from a relationship that you
love being.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
It right right, Yeah, Well, it's something I love to
do and I want I would prefer to have the
person I love, yes, be along for the walks or
the ride or that.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I expect that, and I think I whine pre hike,
but once we actually take them, I'm I'm not an
issue and I enjoy myself. Just fine. I'll talk to
you all day and say I don't want to ever
go to hike. I don't want to hike. I don't
want hike. Then we would get there.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
We're good, yes, and look and we'll baby steps this one.
The funny thing is we've done short hikes like I've
never asked you to do, like a a an arduous hike,
one that goes, you know, for fifteen hours and fifteen miles.
I've done those, and those are really, really tough. I
actually think you might like that because there's a challenge,
a physical challenge.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Ten hours of walking.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Huh, well that was a that was yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Is that one way or around trip?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well that's round trip? Okay, yes, if you're not camping
where you're hiking too, which I know I would never
I would never ask you to do that. We're not
there yet anyway. The funny thing is we got on
this hike and I got a little nervous because I
don't want to put you in a position where I
ask you to go on hike and then it ends
up being an awful hike. So I want to make
sure if you were saying yes, yes exactly. I don't
want to repeat the first hike I took you on,
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which was a mosquito ridden boring, awful hike. This one
I knew was going to have a beautiful view in
the end, but I wasn't exactly sure how long it was,
and so I got nervous because it looked like it
was going to be a long distance. And you went
and looked up on the on the satellite and you said,
it's a seven minute hike. I'm like, cool, and I
knew that we were gonna have a great time, which
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we did.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You all should have seen the really really wash over
her when I said it's only seven minutes to get
to where we needed to be. And it was fine,
and it was fine, and we laughed and we talked
and we joked, and you couldn't be looking down at
your phone and you had to focus and pay attention
to what you were doing and where you were stepping,
and so yeah, you're present. Yeah I did enjoy it.
And it wasn't It wasn't an elevator. We weren't climbing
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or anything like that. It was simply were just in plane.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's sneakers, yeah, sneakers, so we didn't have to have
hiking boots or anything like that. So and your foot
even was hurting a little bit from the run we
did earlier, and you one on the hike, so I
appreciated it. But yeah, I just always feel centered and
connected and in the moment when I'm hiking, and that's
why I love doing it so much.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Okay, So the lo we have did, we've struggled with
the kids this week here right here in man talking
that we we have continued to work, so we're still
getting up at three, yeah, three point thirty four in
the morning and working and by the time the kids
see us when they wake up at ten am, we've
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recorded two three podcast episodes, have had a big breakfast,
just ran five miles and we're in.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
A different place, been to town, gotten coffee, everything. Like we are.
We are more than ready to be in the middle
of our day.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So this is kind of cool that the kids have
asked us constantly and repeatedly to do things with them
and hang out with them. And some of it has
to do if they just want us to pay for
some stuff, but other things they wanted to stay up
late watch a movie or they wants to play cards.
That has nothing to do with but they do genuinely
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like hang out with us, and that's we're fun. Proud
of that. Yes, So we had one big big thing
they wanted to do this week and one big big
thing we wanted to do with them this week and
the one and we ended up doing it both the
same night. So we planned all this out road. We said,
we're gonna get up a certain time, We're gonna get
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so much work done, We're gonna maybe take a nap,
We'll do a five hour energy here we do the
espresso martini at this time. But we had a carnival
to go to and then we were gonna go to
a movie afterwards. So you take the carnival.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yes, So we actually got a big uber XL which
was nice so that we could all have some fun
go down to the carnival. And Yeah, some of the
ride choices I made I regret, but it was still fun.
It always feels like a kid. It actually felt like
a movie set going to this carnival. It was, but
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they had some very fun rides that spinned a lot
that TJ was wise to stay off of that. I
was thinking that I would be just fine if I
went on.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And yeah, because after a number of Morgarita's I thought
it was a bad idea. To get on a ride
called alien abduction, which solely is trying to get you
to feel like it might feel if you were in space.
And the way they accomplished that is by putting you
in this capsule and closing it off through the outside
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world and spinning that sucker as fast as you can
while you are attached to the wall of that saucer.
Do I have the ride right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So you actually end up feeling weightless, like your body
flies up in its g force truly. So it was fun.
I mean, as soon as I got strapped to the wall,
I was regretting my decision. I just thought that maybe
this wasn't a good idea. As soon as I got
wrapped to the wall.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Had context and if somebody uses that as the headline.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, as soon as I got strapped to the wall,
you'd think I knew I'd made a bad decision.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
So that happened. But the girls were like, you'll be fine, mom,
you'll be fine. They're on either side of me, and
I obviously I was fine. And it was definitely worse
and scarier and more upsetting than I thought it was
going to be.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
In part because you had just as much Marguerite as
I had.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That day, right, So I got out. I was fine initially,
but about ten minutes later, I got this massive wave
of nausea and I actually had to leave the park.
You came with me, and I thought I might have
to vomit. I was fine, but I needed I needed
about ten ten minutes to have my whole body just
kind of reacclimate. I got sweaty. Oh, it was bad,
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and I just yeah, And then you were kind of
you looked at me like I told you so.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I didn't do it, And I told you so because
you weren't doing well.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I wasn't doing well.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You would give me hell about not being on this rise.
I'm saying, I know my stomach and I don't know
why I would do that to it right now put
it in a blender.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yes, but okay, so that sounds horrible, but it was
still fun. Like, honestly, you have to take out the
fifteen minutes where I thought I was gonna puke. But
we had fun walking around and it was a blast.
We had a like it was just pcorn. Yeah. When
my stomach recovered, I was definitely into that popcorn. It
tasted amazing for carnival games. Yes, who doesn't want to do.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That dupid stuffed animal?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah? I think all the kids ended up with the
stuffed animal, didn't they?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I think? And there's one on the stairs back here.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yes, but it was just old school family fun that
we weren't even anticipating. And Anial has had to really
beg us to go to this carnival because it wasn't
something we wanted necessarily to do, but ended up having
a blast.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I'm very glad she did, so we The other thing
we you and I really wanted to do was watch
Final Destination Bloodlines, a movie the most recent in the
Final Destination franchise, but you and I saw it at
the theaters and it is up there, certainly the best
in the Final Destination, absolutely, but it is up there
for us in the terms of ranks of one of
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the best horror movies we have seen.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, and it's amazing to us because our kids like
horror movies that they had never seen any of the
Final Destination franchise movies. However. Look, the beginning ones are
campy and maybe not the highest production value, but they're
so good, Like they're so good obviously they've upped the
game significantly in this final, this latest edition, but we
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had them watch it and they were into it. They
were and it was fun to see them enjoying it
because they're like, what is this movie? Huh? And they
really got into it and loved it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Ten minutes they were screaming at the screen and it's like,
oh my god, don't do that. Oh why was you?
They were so I was so happy to see that
we passed on and introduce something to them and we
saw them enjoy it genuinely.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That much Is it concerning that we should be proud
that we are continuing to introduce our children to horror movies.
But you know, I feel like it just makes for
a better family movie night, because then everybody wins if
everybody enjoys them.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Speaking of family movie night, we're about to rent out
a theater so we can watch Weapons.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
They cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Everybody's excited about this and the whole crew is going
to be together for friends, family. Everybody can come.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
To this one Weapons, and it's highly reviewed and one
of my favorite actresses who I loved in Ozark, she's
in it. So this is going to be so good. Yes,
so yeah, I started having my having, I started introducing
my daughters to Harry Potter films and then kind of
went up to the conjuring. And they've just always loved
horror movies. It's just made choices so much easier.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
My daughter's twelve, and she's into it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
She loves horror movies. Her first movie was The Pope's Exorcism, right,
or the Pope's Exorcist.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Movie was The Pope's Exorcists Exorcist.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay, Russell different.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Different, Sorry that I want to make that clear, Russell
Crow Crow, don't come after us, Okay, but yeah, that
was She started it because she would reject that she
didn't want to watch horror movies. She watched one and
I think we had fallen asleep on the.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Couch that she kept watching, and she.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Watched damn near that whole thing by herself. After that,
been hooked on horror movies.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Now we have three girls. God, we all love horror movies.
Yay us, yay parenting.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
All right, folks, Well, whatever you did this week, I
certainly hope you got a little recovery. And it's always important. Look,
we have fun and we passed as along. But we're
working on it, just like many of you are, trying
to make sure we find some time to smell the
roads sometime, if you will, but also appreciate what we
have and who's right next to us sometimes. Well.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Thank you, We appreciate you for listening, and we hope
you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend. I'm
Amy Roboch along with TJ. Holmes. We will talk to
you soon. The T
Hey there, folks, it is Saturday, August ninth. Question for you,
what did you do this week to give yourself a beats,
give yourself a break, give yourself just a little grace
this week, and maybe do a little something to recover. Well,
you know what we did this week to recover. We
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took a four hour drive, had a romantic hike through
a state park, went to a carnival, grilled steaks, kebabs
and broughts every night, introduced a new generation to the
Final Destination Movie franchise, and we watched one particular episode
of Seinfeld. And with that, everybody, welcome to this recovery
run edition of Amy and TJ. Rose. We are getting
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better at this. We were doing bad for a little
while and recovering, but now we've gotten better in the
past few weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, we're even recovering while we're working right now. Because
we are sitting on a beautiful deck at the tip
of Long Island with a beautiful breeze. You might be
able to hear it on the microphone a little bit,
apologies if you can. With a gorgeous seventy three degree
sun beating down on us, not a cloud in the sky,
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so Yes, even though we're working, we're still kind of relaxing.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, not everybody gets to do that. We don't get
to do that often, but we're getting to do it
this week, and that has been a part of us
probably being a little more up, being a little more joyful.
Maybe you've heard it in our tone this week during
some of our episodes, But the recovery run, we always
remind folks this is a real thing, an actual thing
for us runners and marathoners. But yeah, you do all
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that training and all that running, and sometimes you go
run to recover from running robot.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, it's kind of like active recovery. I think anyone
who works out knows what that is. So a recovery
run is a short, easy paced run intended to help
your body recover from the harder workouts aka the rest
of your week. It's a form of active recovery that
promote it's blood flowed to tired muscles, aiding in the
removal of metabolic waste and reducing muscle soreness. You know,
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I would say this recovery run that we're doing now
each week, that we're talking about intentional moments of rest
and relaxation in an otherwise hectic work week. That's it's
almost like a mental recovery, so like your brain actually
gets to relax, like the muscles in your brain. It's
very much like the muscles in your legs or all
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the other muscles you're using in a run, all the
muscles you use when you're stressed and anxious and overthinking,
they need to relax too.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And it's weird that one of are the ways that
we found to relax this week came from probably one
of the most frustrating parts of our week, and I'm
talking about Robes. We went and we watched a particular
episode of Seinfeld. It's called Alternate Side. I think it
was season three, episode eleven, if I can remember that correct.
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But it's the episode Robes that is so famous, has
such a place in pop culture because of a particular
scene in which Jerry was trying to rent a car.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Correct, And we actually had life imitate art this week,
so if you all need a little refresher on the scene.
Jerry goes up to get his car from the rental
company and he says, here's my reservation, and they said, oh, yeah,
we see your reservation. But unfortunately, mister Seinfeld we have
no cars, and he was like, then you actually didn't
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take the reservation, Like, oh, no, we did take the reservation,
and he's like, no. The whole point of a reservation
is to hold a car. And if so you can
take a reservation, you're good at taking reservations. You're not
good at actually following up or following through on the reservation,
which is the whole point and the most important part
of the reservation, which is to have the car available.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
See we're laughing about it now, but it was the
most frustrating part of our week that caused us to
actually watch that episode because we have had a reservation.
We got of we're carless, which a lot of people
are in New York, but yours was the last we
were holding on to. Yep, your coop turned it in
a few months ago. So all we have was a motorcycle.
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Can't go very far with our luggage on that thing.
So we don't have a car, so had we rent
when we travel. So we come to Montalk, rented a car.
You rented that car? Is it literally months ago?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Two months ago?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Two months ago, made a reservation. We show up to
pick up the car over the weekend and they tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
What, we have no vehicles. And not only did I
rent any vehicle this because we knew we had a
bunch of kids coming. We actually specifically asked for an
suv and it was more expensive, the seven passenger suv
pre paid it. Get up there and they say, we
have no vehicles, and I follow up and ask when
will you be getting vehicles? The answer, I don't know,
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and I can't even guarantee you there'll be any for
the rest of the day. And so we're there with
all of our luggage that we slept over on the
other side of the west side of Highway to get
into our car, and we're being told there are no cars.
So then we go and I get on the phone
with another car company and they assure me, if I
go to this other location in Manhattan, we will absolutely
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be able to get a car. So I rented, I
reserved another SUV and okay, got on the phone with
customer service. Yes, ma'am, that car is at that location. Fantastic.
We get into another Uber. We go to the other
car company and what happens. TJ's no cars, we have
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no cars available.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
There's one available, and the family ahead of you is
taking that. It's like, wow, okay, it's awesome. Say, oh,
here's a beautiful electric vehicle if you want to take this. Yes,
it holds about three and a half people and two bags,
and good luck finding whatever place to plug it into.
Those are our options. We ended up getting a third
option with a car with a leaky tire. The air
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is leaking, he assured me. Odds brought probably.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Fine, just a sensor issue. Yeah, we checked it. We
did the tire gauge, the tire pressure gauge. The tires
are fine. So don't be alarmed because when you look
when you go to turn the key, you're going to
see that the tire pressure's dropping. But don't worry. We
confirmed it's not dropping. Okay, just a malfunctioning sensor.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So ocd ME is keeping an eye on this sense
of the whole time pressure's dropping. We have to keep
putting air in a tire. We have put air in
this rental car tire all week because they let us
leave with a leaking.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Tire, and we left with the leaking tire knowing that
it could be because it was our only option. It
seemed as though in all of Manhattan and we were
already an hour behind schedule, which added even a longer
drive time because traffic going out to Long Island is
so amazing on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I have to ask the line the kid gave you,
it hurts. I wasn't there with you and analyse, but
it was a very much a similar line to the show.
And he was talking about so, yeah, we only take reservations,
we don't rent car.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well he said, he said, we only hold reservations, not vehicles.
And when he said that to me, I did not laugh.
I said, did you just hear what you just said?
He's like yes, and I'll repeat it. And then when
you went up and talked to him, he had some
attitude with you because I had already questioned him, like,
did you actually just say that to me with a
straight face?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Okay, So we're not trying to no, this is an
actual experience, and we're not bad mouthing or trying to
bad mouth these companies. But if anybody in any executive
level of either of those two companies knew that their
employees behave that way that day, there would be hell
to pay. There is zero chance you ever want your
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company to have anybody have the experience that we had
with your company.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's so true. It's so true, so that you know,
of course, travel vacations. You know, this is why we've
even laughed when you see other families stressed out, because
there it never goes perfectly. Wheels always fall off the
bus in some way, form or fashion, and ours just
happened right away.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What was the company, you know, not the company? The
family was from? Where was funny?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
There was a family from Germany. And I felt so
bad for her because she had booked She said, she
had booked this car six months in advance. She asked
this sales associate about fifteen questions ahead of times. Okay, fine, whatever.
The guy at the counter, who was rude as hell,
she asked him at least fifteen questions about tolls and
what it was going to be like, and they were
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taking it to Canada, and what kind of insurance she
should have. You could tell she was so detailed. She
was German, so she had all her ducks in a row.
She was literally going through and she looked back at
me and said, I'm sorry, I just I need to
make sure I have everything straight. I said, it's fine,
it's fine, no worries. Because she knew she was like
holding up the line. And then and only then he said, oh,
your reservations for twelve. It was eleven forty five, and
he said you'll just have to wait and didn't tell
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her that there weren't any cars then, and her poor
husband and her son there couldn't speak a lick of English,
so she was the only one communicating. Then the guy
next who came in line, he said, oh, your reservation
was for eleven. Sorry, your car's not here, So he
was making excuses. Then when he came up to me,
he had he ran out of them, so we had
to just say to me, point blank, we have no cars.
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And I was like, what the two people before you
basically kind of blamed them, Oh you're here early, Oh
you're here late. And then he had no other excuse
to me other than to say we only hold reservations,
not vehicles.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
This was egregious. And again this was I understand. Somebody
tell you go to a restaurant and say, oh my goodness,
these people stay late and your reservation is going to
be delayed. I feel we're not talking about mine. Earth
stuff happens, flight delays, all kinds of you. You're freaking
flight intendant has a bad attitude because something's going stuff
happens in business. This was other level and your company
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should not function. No, hey, I don't want to call
him out, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And the rude person at the counter said to us,
this happens every weekend, kind of basically like it's not
a big deal. This is this is how we operate.
This one was great, get used to it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But the company, I know, people get you to know.
We'll get We're not black. No, this is an actual
experience us. This isn't in any way libelous. No, this
was my experience the company. It starts with an H
and ends with earths. Okay with the company, Well, I
don't know how we can ever work with the It
was unbelievad.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I gave customer service a piece of my mind when
I had to call and get my money back, and
I told them that I would never rent with them again.
I was a gold member that was ending. I just it.
I will never ever that was rent from that company ever.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But you know what they gave us. Think it was
a reason to watch a wonderful Seinfeld episode and we laugh.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Isn't it funny? Like whatever. That was probably in the
early nineties, so twenty something years ago, thirty something years ago,
and still still that's what rental companies are doing thirty
years later.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
We got in the car so we could head out
and have a wonderful time and again, yes, spend some
good family time. But in part of that starts with
ay frustrating. Yes, man, we've been frustrated before. We've found joy.
Yeah this week, but yeah, it's a even without traffic,
it's a two and a half hour drive. Put traffic
in there. It's two lane road getting out to where
we are, and it became.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
A doozy like a four hour drive basically, but it
was uneventful and at least our tire didn't go flat.
There were other things to have perspective over. After we
had that experience, it was just like, let's just get
there and be grateful that we're finally somewhere other than Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
We get to where we're a look, this is a
blessing and you and I have I guess we probably
do this once or twice a year. We make our
way up to upstate New York, somewhere along island to
just send a weekend on the lake and just get
some sun to get out of the city. It's always good.
A lot of people from the city do that. But
this has been a week long venture and it's been
cool to have family but also friends in and out
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because your daughters have had like a revolving door of
friends coming in. Yes, that's been really cool actually this week.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yes. And the cool thing is they actually, I think
are probably appreciative of the fact that we have to
go to bed around nine pm each night because we
have to get up so early to do morning run.
So they've kind of had the house to themselves to
enjoy watch movies, kind of feel like, you know, they're
renting their own mon talk home, you know, the twenty
somethings that they are, hahaha. But yes, it's been fun
because we've had to have We've had some fun time
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with them, but they've also gotten some alone time i think,
without us, which I'm sure they're appreciative of.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
But a big part of what we do, and look,
this is what parents do. We want to feed kids
as my parents do. I know what your parents do
when we go home. But it's weird to be in
that position now, to have people of that age expecting
food from you, and you always oblige you.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yes, and we have every every time, like you've been
the girl master as you usually are, and the chef
as well. But every time you put down a plate
of anything, it's hilarious. It's like a feeding friends. You know,
when you go to feed your fish in the fish
tank and you put the fish food and they all
just come up and got That's exactly what happens with
these kids, you know, now that they've got off to
college or you know, actually Ava and Ry are about
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to go off on their own, they're so aware of
how expensive food is and how difficult and time consuming
it is to prepare it that they're extra quick to
just be like whoo food free food. So yes, it's
been fun to watch them be appreciative.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It's a compliment when people eat your food. Of course,
my issue I always take with the girls, Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Just give me a heads up that you want food
that you're starving.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I ask them ahead of time, is anybody else eating
this is what I'm making. I don't get a response,
and then I make enough for two and then I
end up not eating that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It happens multiple times my food, but.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
No it's a joy and it's fun, and this has
been good and we just I don't know. The friends
that your daughters have at this point are family. They've
been around so long and even for me at this
point have known them throughout their lives. It's really really
cool to be able to hang with them like this.
And there, I always say to the man hopes to
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being at some point has friends like Annals in particular,
has because they just good kids. Like all of them
that show up here, bring a bottle of something or
bring some kind of gift to say thank you. Yes,
they're grateful.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's a good they were raised well. And the other
the other perk of having I've always let the girls usually,
if we have the space to do it, you can
bring one friend. And part of it is selfish on
my end, because I know when they each bring one friend,
it changes the dynamic a lot of times. If you
all have siblings and multiple kids, you know that the
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fighting sometimes it goes on. I feel like it doesn't
even matter how old they are. They go and fall
back into their same dynamics. When they have friends with them,
they're on their best behavior. They're not fighting with each other,
and that to me was always like my secret sauce
in a nice congenial vacation where there isn't arguing or yelling.
When they have friends, every buddy seems to be happier
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and more peaceful. It changes the dynamic.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's strategic, but I do I love the kids and
I love having the kids around, and it's analyse is
the only other one here driving? You haven't been doing
a lot of driving, and this is entirely too much parenting.
But every time she walked out the door and then
walked in the door, the first thing I say to her.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What's the tire pressure pressure? We're concerned. I mean, there's
not a lot of real estate. You don't have to
go too many miles to get anywhere here. It's usually
between a five and a ten minute drive. But still, yes,
the tire pressure continues to haunt us.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This is this rental car is driving me. The problem
was caused by one company, but we actually are renting
from another company that starts with an A and ends
with a VIS.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
So they have, by the way, because I called them
and gave them a mirorful and so at least they
have given us a discount in two days off. So
we got something, but what.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Was it we wanted to what was the limit on
how much to want to replace the tire?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
They would only give two hundred dollars to replace its
h and it was going to cost three hundred and
thirty dollars to do it here.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So yeah, we're in my talk.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
The place ain't cheap, right exactly, So I'm not eating
one hundred and thirty dollars to give them a brand
new tire. So yes, we're just gonna keep filling it
back up every day, and.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
We pray we get back to Manhattan all right when
we have to drive. But folks, yeah, all that stuff
was fun and fine and dandy. But a couple of
the highlights of the week unexpectedly. First, if anybody has
listened to us for any period of time, you know
Robot loves hiking. You know that I'm black. We ended
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up on a hike this week and I rather enjoyed it.
Can't wait to tell you about that. And also, we
introduce a new generation to maybe one of the greatest
horror movie franchises of all time.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
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your recovery run on this Saturday. We come to you
from a beautiful, breezy, sunny mom talk along Island. We
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are in active recovery mode while we're working, so I
mean you can do both. Sometimes you can relax and
work at the same time, So we're attempting to do
that while we record this recovery run. But yes, tech
sometimes if you're in the right setting, with the right person,
with the perfect temperature and the perfect distance, hiking can
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be fun for everyone.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Hiking can be fun for everyone. Hiking. I know you
love hiking. Will you define hiking for me again?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Is it just walking through trees and shit?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's walking through beautiful topography that makes you feel connected
to mother Earth and nature and to one another. Because
you usually end up talking, you're in the moment, you're present, but.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You're walking, essentially walking through the woods.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You're walking through the woods you can walk through. But
also you could be walking through the desert. That's gonna
be hiking as well.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But generally speaking in this country when we're talking about hiking,
it's usually in the world I'm talking about. But it
does it need to be at elevation?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
No? I usually like that, but sometimes no, you could
just it could be fairly flat. You could be hiking
on a shoreline, you know, on a cliff. You could
be walking. It doesn't have to always be uphill, Okay,
And you.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And I talk about this all the time. I'm just
it's something I've never I'm from Arkansas. I've lived in
places where that's very popular. Hell, even the Bay Area, Yeah,
Little Rock, Arkansas, the place, even Atlanta, the.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Place is well, oh yeah, North Georgia mountains where the.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Hiking is a thing. I'm just not a hiker. I
know black people hike, but I always joke with you
about things.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Like that, and I say it, and I say, white people, shit, Yeah,
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Out in the woods just just to walk and what Okay,
it's just not my thing. It's okay, but I respect
that you do it to the point that I also
want to be able to compromise, and I want to
this is something she loves to do. I don't want
you to be denied something you want to do, and
it needs to be separate from a relationship that you
love being.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
It right right, Yeah, Well, it's something I love to
do and I want I would prefer to have the
person I love, yes, be along for the walks or
the ride or that.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I expect that, and I think I whine pre hike,
but once we actually take them, I'm I'm not an
issue and I enjoy myself. Just fine. I'll talk to
you all day and say I don't want to ever
go to hike. I don't want to hike. I don't
want hike. Then we would get there.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
We're good, yes, and look and we'll baby steps this one.
The funny thing is we've done short hikes like I've
never asked you to do, like a a an arduous hike,
one that goes, you know, for fifteen hours and fifteen miles.
I've done those, and those are really, really tough. I
actually think you might like that because there's a challenge,
a physical challenge.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Ten hours of walking.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Huh, well that was a that was yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Is that one way or around trip?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well that's round trip? Okay, yes, if you're not camping
where you're hiking too, which I know I would never
I would never ask you to do that. We're not
there yet anyway. The funny thing is we got on
this hike and I got a little nervous because I
don't want to put you in a position where I
ask you to go on hike and then it ends
up being an awful hike. So I want to make
sure if you were saying yes, yes exactly. I don't
want to repeat the first hike I took you on,
(21:09):
which was a mosquito ridden boring, awful hike. This one
I knew was going to have a beautiful view in
the end, but I wasn't exactly sure how long it was,
and so I got nervous because it looked like it
was going to be a long distance. And you went
and looked up on the on the satellite and you said,
it's a seven minute hike. I'm like, cool, and I
knew that we were gonna have a great time, which
(21:29):
we did.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You all should have seen the really really wash over
her when I said it's only seven minutes to get
to where we needed to be. And it was fine,
and it was fine, and we laughed and we talked
and we joked, and you couldn't be looking down at
your phone and you had to focus and pay attention
to what you were doing and where you were stepping,
and so yeah, you're present. Yeah I did enjoy it.
And it wasn't It wasn't an elevator. We weren't climbing
(21:51):
or anything like that. It was simply were just in plane.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's sneakers, yeah, sneakers, so we didn't have to have
hiking boots or anything like that. So and your foot
even was hurting a little bit from the run we
did earlier, and you one on the hike, so I
appreciated it. But yeah, I just always feel centered and
connected and in the moment when I'm hiking, and that's
why I love doing it so much.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Okay, So the lo we have did, we've struggled with
the kids this week here right here in man talking
that we we have continued to work, so we're still
getting up at three, yeah, three point thirty four in
the morning and working and by the time the kids
see us when they wake up at ten am, we've
(22:32):
recorded two three podcast episodes, have had a big breakfast,
just ran five miles and we're in.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
A different place, been to town, gotten coffee, everything. Like we are.
We are more than ready to be in the middle
of our day.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So this is kind of cool that the kids have
asked us constantly and repeatedly to do things with them
and hang out with them. And some of it has
to do if they just want us to pay for
some stuff, but other things they wanted to stay up
late watch a movie or they wants to play cards.
That has nothing to do with but they do genuinely
(23:07):
like hang out with us, and that's we're fun. Proud
of that. Yes, So we had one big big thing
they wanted to do this week and one big big
thing we wanted to do with them this week and
the one and we ended up doing it both the
same night. So we planned all this out road. We said,
we're gonna get up a certain time, We're gonna get
(23:28):
so much work done, We're gonna maybe take a nap,
We'll do a five hour energy here we do the
espresso martini at this time. But we had a carnival
to go to and then we were gonna go to
a movie afterwards. So you take the carnival.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yes, So we actually got a big uber XL which
was nice so that we could all have some fun
go down to the carnival. And Yeah, some of the
ride choices I made I regret, but it was still fun.
It always feels like a kid. It actually felt like
a movie set going to this carnival. It was, but
(24:00):
they had some very fun rides that spinned a lot
that TJ was wise to stay off of that. I
was thinking that I would be just fine if I
went on.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And yeah, because after a number of Morgarita's I thought
it was a bad idea. To get on a ride
called alien abduction, which solely is trying to get you
to feel like it might feel if you were in space.
And the way they accomplished that is by putting you
in this capsule and closing it off through the outside
(24:34):
world and spinning that sucker as fast as you can
while you are attached to the wall of that saucer.
Do I have the ride right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So you actually end up feeling weightless, like your body
flies up in its g force truly. So it was fun.
I mean, as soon as I got strapped to the wall,
I was regretting my decision. I just thought that maybe
this wasn't a good idea. As soon as I got
wrapped to the wall.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Had context and if somebody uses that as the headline.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, as soon as I got strapped to the wall,
you'd think I knew I'd made a bad decision.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
So that happened. But the girls were like, you'll be fine, mom,
you'll be fine. They're on either side of me, and
I obviously I was fine. And it was definitely worse
and scarier and more upsetting than I thought it was
going to be.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
In part because you had just as much Marguerite as
I had.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That day, right, So I got out. I was fine initially,
but about ten minutes later, I got this massive wave
of nausea and I actually had to leave the park.
You came with me, and I thought I might have
to vomit. I was fine, but I needed I needed
about ten ten minutes to have my whole body just
kind of reacclimate. I got sweaty. Oh, it was bad,
(25:45):
and I just yeah, And then you were kind of
you looked at me like I told you so.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I didn't do it, And I told you so because
you weren't doing well.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I wasn't doing well.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You would give me hell about not being on this rise.
I'm saying, I know my stomach and I don't know
why I would do that to it right now put
it in a blender.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yes, but okay, so that sounds horrible, but it was
still fun. Like, honestly, you have to take out the
fifteen minutes where I thought I was gonna puke. But
we had fun walking around and it was a blast.
We had a like it was just pcorn. Yeah. When
my stomach recovered, I was definitely into that popcorn. It
tasted amazing for carnival games. Yes, who doesn't want to do.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That dupid stuffed animal?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah? I think all the kids ended up with the
stuffed animal, didn't they?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I think? And there's one on the stairs back here.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yes, but it was just old school family fun that
we weren't even anticipating. And Anial has had to really
beg us to go to this carnival because it wasn't
something we wanted necessarily to do, but ended up having
a blast.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I'm very glad she did, so we The other thing
we you and I really wanted to do was watch
Final Destination Bloodlines, a movie the most recent in the
Final Destination franchise, but you and I saw it at
the theaters and it is up there, certainly the best
in the Final Destination, absolutely, but it is up there
for us in the terms of ranks of one of
(27:08):
the best horror movies we have seen.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, and it's amazing to us because our kids like
horror movies that they had never seen any of the
Final Destination franchise movies. However. Look, the beginning ones are
campy and maybe not the highest production value, but they're
so good, Like they're so good obviously they've upped the
game significantly in this final, this latest edition, but we
(27:31):
had them watch it and they were into it. They
were and it was fun to see them enjoying it
because they're like, what is this movie? Huh? And they
really got into it and loved it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Ten minutes they were screaming at the screen and it's like,
oh my god, don't do that. Oh why was you?
They were so I was so happy to see that
we passed on and introduce something to them and we
saw them enjoy it genuinely.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That much Is it concerning that we should be proud
that we are continuing to introduce our children to horror movies.
But you know, I feel like it just makes for
a better family movie night, because then everybody wins if
everybody enjoys them.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Speaking of family movie night, we're about to rent out
a theater so we can watch Weapons.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
They cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Everybody's excited about this and the whole crew is going
to be together for friends, family. Everybody can come.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
To this one Weapons, and it's highly reviewed and one
of my favorite actresses who I loved in Ozark, she's
in it. So this is going to be so good. Yes,
so yeah, I started having my having, I started introducing
my daughters to Harry Potter films and then kind of
went up to the conjuring. And they've just always loved
horror movies. It's just made choices so much easier.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
My daughter's twelve, and she's into it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
She loves horror movies. Her first movie was The Pope's Exorcism, right,
or the Pope's Exorcist.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Movie was The Pope's Exorcists Exorcist.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay, Russell different.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Different, Sorry that I want to make that clear, Russell
Crow Crow, don't come after us, Okay, but yeah, that
was She started it because she would reject that she
didn't want to watch horror movies. She watched one and
I think we had fallen asleep on the.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Couch that she kept watching, and she.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Watched damn near that whole thing by herself. After that,
been hooked on horror movies.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Now we have three girls. God, we all love horror movies.
Yay us, yay parenting.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
All right, folks, Well, whatever you did this week, I
certainly hope you got a little recovery. And it's always important. Look,
we have fun and we passed as along. But we're
working on it, just like many of you are, trying
to make sure we find some time to smell the
roads sometime, if you will, but also appreciate what we
have and who's right next to us sometimes. Well.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Thank you, We appreciate you for listening, and we hope
you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend. I'm
Amy Roboch along with TJ. Holmes. We will talk to
you soon. The T
Hosts And Creators
Amy Robach
T.J. Holmes
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